Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Alan Turing's Contribution

Alan Mathison Turing was born on June 23, 1912 and died on June 7, 1954, and during his time, Turing was able to become known as the father of computer science and artificial intelligence.  Turing was a mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.  He created the Turing machine, and this was considered a model of a general purpose computer. Turing gave a formalization of the concepts of algorithms and computations with the Turing machine.  


During World War II, Turing devised a number of techniques for breaking German ciphers, including the bombe.  The bombe is an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine.

After World War II, Turing worked for the National Physical Laboratory.  Here he designed the ACE, which is one one of the first designs for a stored-program computer.  He also assisted in the development of the Manchester computers.  

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